Hi, What factors should we consider like education,qualification, how can we judge a person as good SEO, what are the factors, kindly let me know. Thanks,
Their knowledge of SEO, ask them questions / talk to them about your website's SEO, you can usually quite easily detect the people who know what they're talking about and the people that don't have a clue by asking simple SEO related questions to be honest.
Experience is the biggest factor of any profession.We should keep experience as a prior factor after that qulifaction.
Now a days it is really important for a website owner to hire a SEO person so they can get traffic on you website and even in long run your site can rank better on major search engines.
Go to freelancing sites and post a job describing your need. Then you will get application from professional people. Look at their work history, feedback score and comment. You will get some really skilled people from there.
Results Forget about diplomas degrees and all that crap ... His results and maybe recomandations and of course if he says serious stuff or BS like 100% guarantees or they charge 100% for that money you get a monkey not a SEO ...
You should first ask for examples of work he/she has completed in the past and see if they have any recommendations. Then you should check their price, what country they are situated in for the article marketing aspect of the SEo work, the quality of the work they can produce, if they can present you with a proposal of the SEO work which they would do for you with an outline of the strategy they will use.
Below are the check points, 1) There packages 2) Portfolio (List of websites with their current position) Talk with at least some one you find of your industry 3) Don't do long term contract rather do monthly contract and with small budget (not more than 500 bucks per month)
about the only thing that matters is their previous results. if they give you a list of sites they've worked for, you can easily look at positions for keywords, keyword competitiveness, overall Alexa and PR of those sites, and backlink quality/style. all of that together describes a SEO's ability quite well.
You should know about there personal and professional particle experience with projects and how they can get give the results. You should check this first.
Thanks a lot guys for sharing your views. The post was very informative and useful. I am sure this would help the SEO newbies. Keep sharing your views.
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